No. 19 Men's Basketball at Brandeis
Wednesday, November 11 | 7 p.m. 
Red Auerbach Arena | Waltham, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson is 25-24 all-time against Brandeis in a series that dates back to the 1974-75 campaign.
•    The Beavers have won four straight and seven of the last nine meetings between the teams dating back to 2013.
•    The Green and White has been victorious in each of its last two visits to Red Auerbach Arena, recording double-digit victories in both 2022 and 2024. 
•    Just two of the last 10 games between Babson and Brandeis have been decided by seven points or fewer going back to 2011. 

LAST MEETING
•    Timmy O'Toole '26 scored the go-ahead hoop in overtime and finished with 26 points and 17 rebounds as the Beavers defeated Brandeis, 86-82, on November 8, 2025, in Babson Park. 
•    Sophomore Thomas Ferdinando scored 14 points, junior Timmy Mulvey and sophomore Robby Fiore both scored 11 points, and Tyler Lauder '26 contributed four points, 11 rebounds and six assists for Babson, which finished with a 52-29 edge on the glass. 
•    Elias Rodl led four players in double figures with 21 points, Alex Zakheim contributed 20 points, six steals, five rebounds and five assists, and Matthew Cadogan added 14 points for the Judges, who went 31-of-42 (73.8 percent) at the free throw line and erased a 10-point deficit with six minutes to play to force OT. 

SCOUTING THE BEAVERS 
•    No. 19 Babson had six players score in double figures and rallied from a 17-point first-half deficit to defeat Lasell, 94-77, in Saturday's season opener. 
•    Mulvey scored 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting, junior Logan Murphy poured in a career-high 20 points to go along with a career-best four steals, and senior Marc Begin II added 14 points and five assists for the Beavers, who shot 58.8 percent in the second half and set a new single-game record with 20 three-pointers.
•    The Green and White returns three starters and 13 players in all from a team that went 22-7 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2022 last winter. 
•    Ferdinando (16.8 pts, 4.0 reb, 2.8 ast) earned D3hoops.com Region II Rookie of the Year and All-NEWMAC first-team honors, Mulvey (16.1 pts, 2.4 ast) garnered all-conference and all-region first-team accolades, and Murphy averaged 7.2 points and 2.6 rebounds, and shot 40 percent from three-point range while starting 20 of 29 games last season. 

SCOUTING THE JUDGES
•    Brandeis (0-1) opened the season with a 67-61 loss to Western New England on Saturday afternoon. 
•    Gur Dhillon had 16 points, six rebounds and three assists, and Javi Lopez and Will Hoffmaster both scored 14 points while combining to shoot 84.6 percent (11-of-13) from the field for the Judges, who trailed by as many as 14 midway through the second half before getting as close as four with 54 seconds to go. 
•    The Judges return just four players from a team that finished 13-12 overall and 6-8 in the UAA last winter. 
•    Dhillon averaged 7.0 points on 52.7 percent shooting to go along with 2.5 points in 23 games off the bench, while Ryan Weiss started 19 times and contributed 5.8 points and 2.6 boards, and shot 36.5 percent from beyond the arc. 

MULVEY NAMED NEWMAC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
•    The junior sharpshooter knocked down 8-of-11 shots and went 7-of-10 from beyond the arc on the way to scoring 23 points in Saturday's season opener against Lasell. 
•    Mulvey's seven triples were one shy of the single-game school record he matched by going 8-of-11 from long distance in a win over Wheaton on January 15, 2026. 

LOOKING BACK ON 2025-26
•    Babson captured its third conference title in four seasons for the first time in school history and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last winter. 
•    The Beavers recorded their most overall wins (22) and NEWMAC victories (13) since the 2016-17 campaign and defeated Saint Joseph's (Maine) in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament before falling to eventual NCAA semifinalist Trinity in the second round. 
•    The Green and White graduated four seniors, including all-region and all-conference honoree Timmy O'Toole (10.2 pts, 8.9 reb) and Tyler Lauder (5.5 pts, 6.4 reb, 2.8 ast), who both started all 29 games last year. 

THREE AT A TIME
•    Mulvey became just the second player in program history to make at least 100 three-pointers in a season with his 102 triples last winter. Only Nick Comenale '18, who finished with 110 during Babson's national championship run in 2016-17, made more in a single season. 
•    Ferdinando's 87 three-pointers during the 2025-26 campaign set a new Babson rookie record and are tied for fourth on the program's single-season chart. 
•    As a team, the Beavers ranked ninth in Division III in three-point field goal percentage (37.6) and 20th in three-pointers per game (10.3) while setting a new single-season program record with 299 trifectas. 

BEAVER BITES
•    Junior Vaughn Foster scored in double figures for the fourth time in his career in Saturday's season opener, finishing with 11 points on 5-of-6 shooting.
•    Junior Ryan Frauenheim has scored in double figures in four of his last five games dating back to last winter last winter and is averaging 10.6 points and 2.8 assists while shooting 50 percent from the floor during this stretch.
•    Ferdinando, who dished out a career-high nine assists versus Lasell, has scored in double figures in 21 straight games going back to last year.
•    Mulvey has scored in double figures in 18 straight contests and has drained at least three three-pointers in 17 consecutive outings. 
•    First-year Grant Cieplicki played 13 minutes and pulled down a game-high eight rebounds in his collegiate debut on Saturday against Lasell.

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson's 20 three-pointers against Lasell broke the team's previous single-game record of 19 in a 94-73 win over Tufts on December 1, 2018. 
•    The Beavers were 17-0 last season and have won 20 straight games when outrebounding their opponents. 
•    The Green and White has won 25 of its last 26 games going back to December 2024 when holding its foes below 70 points. 
•    Babson has attempted at least 19 three-pointers in 39 consecutive games going back to the 2024-25 season. 

UP NEXT
•    The Beavers are back inside Staake Gymnasium to face UMass Dartmouth on Saturday at 7 p.m.